Influence of grain size before cold rolling on development of crystallographically equivalent main texture component in recrystallization texture of 3% Si-Fe

3%Si-Fe sheet produced by high cold rolling reduction over 80% has strong {111} recrystallization texture. This orientation has two crystallographically equivalent orientations such as (111)[1 -2 1] and (111)[-1 -1 2]. However, there are a few previous works in which these orientations are investigated separately. In the present study, the recrystallization behavior of the crystallographically equivalent orientations of {111} was investigated using two samples with different grain sizes before cold rolling. Both recrystallized samples had strong {111} component texture. The sample with a small grain size before cold rolling had almost the same fraction of each equivalent orientations, while the sample with a large grain size had substantially different fractions of each equivalent orientations. Spatial distribution of two crystallographically equivalent orientations in the sample with a small grain size before cold rolling was almost homogeneous, however that in the sample with a large grain size before cold rolling was inhomogeneous. It is considered that these differences are explained by the assumption that a certain large grain before cold rolling will generate only single crystallographically equivalent orientation after cold rolling and annealing.